May 29- “Father Andre’ Coindre” © artwork by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS.
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The era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire had ended in 1815, with the Church humbled by years of persecution. Ordained in 1812, André Coindre was one of a new generation of Catholic clergy committed to the revival of the Church and its mission to the poor. As a chaplain in the squalid prisons of Lyon, Fr. André realized that juvenile delinquents had little hope of rehabilitation. He established a haven in which young offenders were provided vocational training and Christian formation. In 1821 Fr. André established the Brothers of the Sacred Heart to work both in Lyon and in rural villages where illiteracy was rampant. He also worked closely with St. Claudine Thévenet and the Religious of Jesus and Mary to meet the needs of poor and abandoned girls.
His size and demeanor, as well as his fiery rhetoric, helped convert and inspire a range of the populace from prisoners to wealthy benefactors. Yet it was the delicacy and tenderness of his compassionate heart that drove him. The heart he found in others, and others saw in him, was the incarnation; Christ present in the distressing guise of troubled and impoverished children. This Sacred Heart of Jesus became the image and the name under which his community of Brothers have served youth to this day.
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